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Nationalizing France's Army : foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831

Title
Nationalizing France's Army : foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831 / Christopher J. Tozzi.
Author
Tozzi, Christopher J., 1986-
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

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Description
ix, 306 pages; 24 cm
Series Statement
Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Alternative Title
Foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Military history.
Note
  • "Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-299) and index.
Awards (note)
  • Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
Contents
The Army before the nation: foreign troops in Old Regime -- France -- Nationalizing the Army -- Foreign legions from the Old Regime to the Terror -- The limits of pragmatism: foreign soldiers and the Terror -- Constitutionalism and innovation: foreign troops under the Directory and the Consulate -- Revolutionary continuities: Napoleon's foreign troops -- Jews, soldiering, and citizenship in revolutionary and Napoleonic France -- Conclusion: Foreign soldiers and the revolutionary legacy -- Appendices -- A. Places of birth for troops in foreign regiments -- B. The foreign regiments in 1789.
Call Number
Sc E 16-1303
ISBN
  • 9780813938332
  • 0813938333
LCCN
2015035152
OCLC
928488264
Author
Tozzi, Christopher J., 1986- author.
Title
Nationalizing France's Army : foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831 / Christopher J. Tozzi.
Publisher
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-299) and index.
Awards
Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
Chronological Term
1700 - 1899
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-1303
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